in this guide I'm going to show you how you can remove the black bars on Amazon Prime or while
watching a video or movie on Amazon Prime and how you can actually stretch the video to full screen
or almost full screen if you have a really wide or an ultra wide monitor so this applies to any
monitor you have but this also applies to those who have a really wide or a curved monitor so
let's get started so there will be three parts to this tutorial the first is I'm going to show
you how you can do this on Google Chrome second is Microsoft Edge which is exactly the same just the
process does a couple of things a bit different and the third is Mozilla Firefox if you have any
other browsers you can use this on Brave as well I believe you can install extensions from crime
on Brave as well so this should work I haven't tried it unfortunately and if you have any other
browsers that you need me to have a look at leave them in the comments alright so what we're going
to do is we're going to utilize a plugin that is available free on the Chrome web store so
make sure you're logged in to your Amazon Prime time and all that stuff first and if you like a
step-by-step guide or a written guide please go to the link in the description where I have the
link to the article on windowsloves.com which goes into the detail on the exact same things including
screenshots and all the stuff or you can just bookmark it so that you can come back to it later
when you need it so the first thing as you can see is we're going to go to the Chrome Web Store and
install application called Zoom to fill Ultra wide video so first we're going to go to the Chrome web
store and you can click on the left and search the store so I'm going to search for Zoom to
fill as you can see it's featured as well and it is trusted by a lot of other users as well as you
can see it says removes the videos black pass or Netflix Disney plus HBO Max Amazon Prime I haven't
tested on other applications I've tested Netflix it does work so if you want to use it for Netflix
as well that's fine for the purpose of this video I'm gonna try it out on Amazon Prime which is a
bit tricky as compared to Netflix so once you are on the page click on add to Chrome click on ADD
extensions as you can see it has been added right so it says Zoom to fill it's just a introduction
on what's new and how you can use it as well so I'm just going to show you that quickly in
a second I'm going to close that and if you know aware you can pin the extensions uh in the past
it wasn't the case but now you need to pin them so that you can have quick access to them so as
you can go so you can see all all the extensions that I installed on my application on my computer
are here so I'm just going to pin it and I have an access so this is the extension so what you
need to do now is you go back to your Prime video I will just do a quick refresh just in case that
the extension is recognized by the website or the website is accessible by the extension and
what you do is you just play any video for example I'm just going to play this video
um just continue watching and as you can see there's a new Option here that says click to zoom
scroll to adjust now let's say you're watching this series and you go full screen and then you
can see there's bars on top and bottom okay I've told you that this is a 49 inch screen but I'm
currently recording on 1920 1080 so the only space I have is on the top and on the bottom if you have
a wider screen you will have black bars on the left and the right as well now if you click on
that what it does it basically crops the video and technically gives you an illusion that it's
actually filling the entire screen now if you have a normal size screen let's say 21 inches
or 27 inches on any have a decent and you have a standard aspect ratio monitor then this extension
will work really good and it looks like the all the bars are removed but in case you have a Ultra
wide monitor which in this case I do what happens is there will be a there will be some space on
left or right side of the screen you can decide to remove that as well but that will increase the
zoom a lot so what I mean by that is for example if the zoom by default the default Zoom is not
enough for you what you can do is you close that you click on that extension and as you can see you
can choose a aspect ratio that is perfect for your monitor or you can increase the aspect ratio or
you can increase the amount that it crops or Zooms in for example if I go 1.12 1.25 continue watching
you can actually increase that so if you go back you can actually increase that while the video
is playing as well as you can see it's zooming in right so you just got to play around and find the
perfect fit for your monitor and the aspect ratio as well so now that differs depending on how that
particular video you're watching if that video is shot on exported on different aspect ratios
as well so you just gotta find a perfect fit for every show or every TV for every movie or every
video you watch on Prime video so so that's how you've done it's done on Google Chrome I'm going
to show you how it's done on Microsoft Edge but I'm just going to show you how you install the
extension and everything else remains exactly the same for Edge so if I go switch to Edge I have my
Prime video open already it's going to go full screen now what you want to do is you want to
install the extension first so it's the exact the same extension the reason behind that is because
the new Edge is built on top of chromium which is the basis or the base for Google Chrome as
well that's what Google Chrome is built on top so this is built on top of the same stuff that
Google Chrome is built on so the extensions are compatible with each other all right you got to
remember that you are installing the extension that is available on the Chrome web store so if
you go and search for the extension on Microsoft Edge add-ons page you won't find it so you got to
go to Google Search or if you have a direct link to the Chrome web store you can use that as well
I'm just going to go Chrome web store scroll to Google search open that web store and as you can
see it says you can now add extensions so I'm just going to search for Zoom to fill and as you can
see this is the exact same extension because we are on the same web store now open that and as you
can see it says add to Chrome it doesn't say add to Edge but that's fine it will work regardless
ADD extension and as you can see the extension has been installed so now you can go back to the
Prime video and do the exact same thing and adjust depending on how you would like now let's jump on
to Firefox and how to remove black bars on Amazon video for Firefox or the Prime video extension if
you're not from if you are familiar with that so if I open Mozilla Firefox and if I go and search
for add-ons and themes right find more add-ons search for Ultra video keep please note that I'm
not typing video I'm typing video so Ultra video so that's the extension we're going to use there
might be other ones I haven't tried it if you you have other suggestions please leave them
in the comments so that other users might find it useful so this is the one I'm using currently and
it works for me so click on that and click on add to Firefox it's asking confirmation click
on ADD and as you can see Ultra video was added and it's just a thank you page and you can turn
it and you can go through the instructions on how to get different things done and shortcuts
and all that stuff I'm just going to show you the basic what I do with physical Extinction so go to
Prime Prime video I'm just gonna Prime video sorry I'm just going to reload the page just
in case if you click on it there's three modes basically right there's shortcuts you can set if
you prefer that there's normal there's upscale and there's a stretch right I don't really use
stretch most of the time because it's not a good experience I'd rather watch a normal tiny Square
video instead of a stretched one the one option the option you can use is upscale basically you
don't have fine tuning and you don't have that granular control over the manual zoom that you
have as compared to zoom to fill on Google Chrome or Edge so you only have the upscale so if I open
the video let's say I continue watching all right so uh contrary to the other extensions
you don't get any new options what you get is the upscale if the extension doesn't seem
to be working just make sure you restart your Firefox browser that's what I just did so if I
open the video I play it I go to full screen the screen is entirely filled with the video
so that's what you want while you're watching a video now what you want to do is if you want to
go back and you want to change it to normal you got to go pause the video good extension and you
go and enable other modes so you can not disable just that you got to enable something else so I
gotta go normal or you can just go and pause the extension so you just go upscale if you want to
stretch it you're going to stretch it you select you stretch the video and then go and play and
full Go full screen the video will be stretched if there's some space like I said the article is
in the description if you have any question if you have any queries or if you have any
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